Director, Digital Partner - HR and Legal

Position Title: Director, Digital Partner for HR and Legal

Location: Hybrid

Reports to: Senior Director, Technology Business Partnering for Finance, Corporate Services & ERP

Direct Reports: 1

Scope: All Brands

Together,WEenable individuals to look, feel, and be their true selves.

Wella Company is one of the world's leading beauty companies, comprised of a family of iconic brands such as Wella Professionals, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin and ghd. With 6,000 employees globally, presence in over 100 countries, Wella Company and its brands enable consumers to look, feel, and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry, Wella Company empowers its people to delight consumers, inspire beauty professionals, engage communities, and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders.

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The Director, Digital Partner for HR and Legal is a strategic and delivery-focused technology leader responsible for enabling Wella's global HR and Legal functions through scalable, secure, and business-aligned digital solutions. Reporting to the Senior Director of Corporate Functions, this role partners closely with HR and Legal leaders to drive targeted transformation across workforce management, employee experience, compliance, and legal operations
-unlocking efficiency, improving service delivery, and ensuring regulatory adherence.

This role provides both strategic input and hands-on leadership across the lifecycle of enterprise applications that support HR and Legal processes. It owns and evolves platforms that enable core processes such as Hire to Retire, workforce administration, case and matter management, contract lifecycle management, and compliance reporting. The role ensures these systems are reliable, user-centric, secure, and aligned with global standards and business priorities.

This role is accountable for platform operations within the HR and Legal domains, including system stability, service continuity, user satisfaction, and integration with broader enterprise platforms (e.g., ERP, identity, and collaboration tools). It plays a key role in reducing fragmentation, standardizing capabilities, and promoting globally consistent solutions while balancing local regulatory needs.

As a trusted technology partner to HR and Legal leadership, this role translates business priorities into actionable technology roadmaps and ensures delivery of measurable value. The role leads a focused team of domain-aligned resources and collaborates across enterprise IT and vendor ecosystems to deliver outcomes across processes such as Hire to Retire and Legal operations.

Application Strategy & Architecture (Success Factors, QMS, ADP, etc)

• Define and execute the application strategy for HR and Legal systems, aligned with business capability models, regulatory requirements, and enterprise architecture standards.
• Own and maintain the IT roadmap across key HR and Legal processes (e.g., Hire to Retire, workforce management, legal case management, contract lifecycle management)
• Drive modernization by rationalizing legacy applications and promoting scalable, cloud-based solutions.
• Promote a "buy over build" approach to enhance speed, reduce complexity, and ensure sustainability of platforms.
• Support the shift toward standardized global solutions while accommodating local legal and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture to ensure integration, interoperability, and security standards are met.

Solution Delivery, Operations & Lifecycle Management

• Oversee delivery and lifecycle management of HRIS, legal systems, and supporting platforms (including SaaS and packaged solutions).
• Ensure end-to-end accountability from roadmap through implementation and ongoing operations.
• Drive disciplined release management, testing, and change control processes to ensure system quality and compliance.
• Champion user-centric design, improving employee and legal user experiences and adoption.
• Ensure stable operations in partnership with global IT teams responsible for infrastructure and service management.
• Act as escalation point for HR and Legal applications, ensuring continuity of critical processes such as payroll, workforce administration, and compliance reporting.

Business Engagement & Value Delivery

• Serve as a trusted advisor to HR and Legal leaders and global process owners, aligning IT initiatives with functional strategies.
• Drive strong collaboration with stakeholders to align platform capabilities with workforce transformation, talent management, and legal compliance priorities.
• Support and shape transformation initiatives across Hire to Retire and Legal process domains.
• Accelerate outcomes such as workforce digitization, employee self-service, and legal process automation.
• Represent HR and Legal technology priorities in governance forums, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy.
• Define and track business value, including efficiency gains, user…